Hi, first post on this forum so i thought i'd give you a link to some free orchestral samples. This may have been mentioned before, but i don't think its on the sticky post at the top.
http://www.philharmonia.co.uk/thesounde ... libraries/
I read about it in the Sunday Times today. they are royalty free and 16 bit wav or aiff files. I'm not too sure of the quality as i havent gone through them yet, but they may well be useful and there is a huge range to choose from.
Philharmonia Orchestra free samples
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- KVRAF
- 6596 posts since 21 Jun, 2004 from Secret Underground Hideout
This site is very cool. Thanks for the link. Welcome to KVR. MP3 works for me.
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- KVRian
- 805 posts since 15 Dec, 2004
Are you aware that now i will waste all my free time downloading and downloading?HanglowSkank wrote:Hi, first post on this forum so i thought i'd give you a link to some free orchestral samples. This may have been mentioned before, but i don't think its on the sticky post at the top.
http://www.philharmonia.co.uk/thesounde ... libraries/
I read about it in the Sunday Times today. they are royalty free and 16 bit wav or aiff files. I'm not too sure of the quality as i havent gone through them yet, but they may well be useful and there is a huge range to choose from.
Thanks very much, the link appear very good.
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- KVRian
- 1256 posts since 22 Aug, 2003
When you get finished downloading and downloading, send the package to me, and I will upload them for all 
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Especially if you've sliced everything up and mapped out into sfz format!
.Especially if you've sliced everything up and mapped out into sfz format!
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- KVRian
- 805 posts since 15 Dec, 2004
Rellik wrote:When you get finished downloading and downloading, send the package to me, and I will upload them for all
Especially if you've sliced everything up and mapped out into sfz format!
looking at the site, i noticed that the samples are, most of them, in mp3 format. Said this, the articulations sections look very interesting.
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- KVRist
- 177 posts since 7 Aug, 2004
maybe one of you pros can download the MP3s, resample to WAV, then put into a soundfont for us 'fonters. I'd do it but I think it may violate some copyright restrictions and I'm a coward. At least where the RIAA is concerned. You, on the other hand, appear fearless. I envy you.
It's better to burn out...than it is to um..to um...well, something, anyway...
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- KVRian
- 941 posts since 8 Jan, 2004 from California
I love to map and be glad to do it, if someone wants to spend the time downloading this mess, what a pain in the ass, one at a time?....there's got to be a direct link? It's just not worth the time but I'd love to here the whole package when put together....I'll sf and nki if you get those mp3s.
The armchair is more than the sum of the bastards
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- KVRist
- Topic Starter
- 375 posts since 26 Feb, 2005 from Glasgow/Edinburgh
It is not the most user friendly way to download is it? Pity, as there is the whole orchestra to choose from. You would think that they could offer packs by instrument or section. Maybe they are just a bit worried about bandwidth...who knows.
They state that they don't mind sharing the files with friends, the only thing you are not allowed to do with them is to sell them, so there wouldn't be a problem with convertng them to wav. Perhaps a few emails to them might convince them to offer download packs instead, might be easier all round.
They state that they don't mind sharing the files with friends, the only thing you are not allowed to do with them is to sell them, so there wouldn't be a problem with convertng them to wav. Perhaps a few emails to them might convince them to offer download packs instead, might be easier all round.
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- KVRian
- 1120 posts since 4 Jun, 2003 from Skanky Manc
http://slib.soundex.co.uk/samples/meeks wrote:....there's got to be a direct link?
shame they're 80kbps mp3s though
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- KVRian
- 868 posts since 7 May, 2002 from Sydney, Australia
Wow, some nice stuff 
Those of you after orchestral strings, another link :
http://www.notam02.no/9/
This is Beethoven's 9th Symphony, stretched out to 24 hours and pitch corrected (!) - some amazing long, slow string textures here, great for sampling. available for download in 83 minute mp3 chunks!
Those of you after orchestral strings, another link :
http://www.notam02.no/9/
This is Beethoven's 9th Symphony, stretched out to 24 hours and pitch corrected (!) - some amazing long, slow string textures here, great for sampling. available for download in 83 minute mp3 chunks!
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- KVRist
- Topic Starter
- 375 posts since 26 Feb, 2005 from Glasgow/Edinburgh
cheers for the direct link it is a shame about the quality. 
I'll email them to see if they would realease the original wavs if they have them.
Edit: someone else asked on their forum about this, i don't know if it was one of you.
They are planing on releasing packs and high quality aiff samples of the instruments. So wait till then, i'll keep an eye on it and give you a heads up
it is a shame about the quality. I'll email them to see if they would realease the original wavs if they have them.
Edit: someone else asked on their forum about this, i don't know if it was one of you.
They are planing on releasing packs and high quality aiff samples of the instruments. So wait till then, i'll keep an eye on it and give you a heads up
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- KVRAF
- 4048 posts since 18 Sep, 2004 from Places far less tedious than this blue trainwreck...
Pantsdown666 wrote:Wow, some nice stuff
Those of you after orchestral strings, another link :
http://www.notam02.no/9/
This is Beethoven's 9th Symphony, stretched out to 24 hours and pitch corrected (!) - some amazing long, slow string textures here, great for sampling. available for download in 83 minute mp3 chunks!
